OVERVIEW

MIT Driverless, a student-run autonomous racing team is excited to share with you this invitation to our 2020 Autonomous Hackathon, sponsored by Arrow Electronics, a Fortune 500 company and key solution supplier in racing leagues such as Formula One, Formula E and the Indy Series.

Dates: Friday, April 24 evening - Saturday, April 25 evening

Location: MIT Campus (exact location TBD)

The Event

We start on the evening of Friday, April 24 with a welcome from our sponsors, and the students will receive their welcome package including both hardware and any software/datasets to be prepared for a full day of challenges the next day.

All day Saturday, April 25, teams will be asked to complete a series of challenges designing algorithms to race a mini autonomous vehicle through the indoor track with the goal to complete the track with the fastest time and the least error. Each team will have their chance to race their cars at the end and the teams will be ranked by their completion time, error rate and efficiency. The overall event will end at around 9PM Saturday with a networking mixer.

Registration Timelines

Please bear in mind the below timelines:

April 10: Registration Deadline!

April 17: Final 10 teams announced

April 24-25: Hackathon!

Team Composition

You will be able to have teams of up to 4 people. If you do not have a team, we can help you to match with someone else.

Competition Assets

Each team will be provided with an Nvidia Jetracer. For more on this system, visit here.

April 24 - Friday

6:00pm - 7:00pm - Check in and Welcome Dinner

7:00pm - 8:00pm - Introduction from MIT Driverless and Intro

8:00pm - 9:00pm - Q&A and Networking Mixer

April 25 - Saturday

9:00am - 10:00am - Begin hacking

10:00am - 2:00pm - Morning working session

Lunch will be provided at 1:00pm

2:00pm - 6:00pm - Afternoon working session

Dinner will be provided at 5:00pm

7:00pm - 8:00pm - Race!

8:00pm - 9:00pm - Award ceremony and networking

Will all meals be provided?

Meals will be provided Friday night and Saturday lunch and dinner.

I have an additional question!

Please email us at driverless-business@mit.edu or visit our Contact page.